Lucinda Jarrett is artistic director of Rosetta Life, where she currently leads the Brain Odysseys
strand of SHAPER, an arts and health research impact fund led by Kings college London, exploring
how arts and health programmes can be upscaled. Brain Odysseys now boasts a performance
company of 20 emerging artists, ambassadors from our programme, who advocate for independent
living after the trauma of stroke through performance arts.
She also leads Place4Hope, a global community of youth leaders from 20 countries across the globe,
using the digital and immersive arts to advocate for climate change.
She founded Rosetta Life in 1997 in partnership with a movement therapist to explore ways of
linking movement and storytelling and the creative arts residency programme grew to reach over
forty hospices over the period of ten years. In 2007 she founded The Songrooms, combining
movement, music and songwriting in an online project that linked ten children’s hospices across
Africa and England. Three year funding from the Cultural Olympiad in 2009 enabled Lucinda to work
with a group of dancers to conduct a clinical audit of movement practices in a range of contexts
across end of life care and she has held a residency at the National Hospital for Neurology and
Neurosurgery since 2012.
She is a Clore Cultural Leadership Fellow, a Churchill Fellow and a Fellow of the School for Social
Entrepreneurs. She is an honorary senior researcher at UCL and has published widely on creative
engagement with health care, shared her practice abroad and has led projects in America, Brazil,
South Africa and Thailand.
